Sentences with phrase «queen pheromones»

After identifying candidate queen pheromones by analysing chemical profiles of queens and workers, they created synthetic samples of the pheromones and tested them to see whether they inhibited worker reproduction.

The researchers began by searching for sterility - inducing queen pheromones in representative species of wasps, bees, and ants.

And this ultimately supports the hypothesis that fertility signals, which eventually evolved to become queen pheromones that regulate reproduction, have remained the same since the last common solitary ancestor of all social insects, which lived approximately 145 million years ago,» says Wenseleers.

«Single class of queen pheromones stops worker reproduction in ants, bees, wasps.»

Surprisingly, the queen pheromone of honeybees seemed to lower methylation, while the queen pheromone of ants seemed to increase it, suggesting things work differently in bees and ants.

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Monogyne workers tending their queen possibly have more sensitive pheromone receptors than do some polygynes.

The gene in question seems to work by controlling how ants perceive pheromones that tell them who's a queen and who isn't.

So, what happens that the researchers were looking at, this moment, when the bees suddenly lost weight, and they found that it is dictated by the queen bee's pheromones, which trigger this insulin mechanism in the bees» brains that causes them to lose weight.

«When deprived of the pheromone that queens emit, worker bees and ants become more self - centred and lazy, and they begin to lay eggs,» said lead researcher Dr Luke Holman from The Australian National University (ANU).

Dr Holman collaborated with biologists from the University of Helsinki to investigate whether the queen's pheromone altered DNA methylation in workers.

NC State researchers identify the termite royal recognition pheromone emitted by queens, like the one pictured, and kings.

Schal said that the study upends the commonly held belief that queens of the insect order Hymenoptera — ants, bees and wasps — were the first to use these wax - like hydrocarbon pheromones for royal recognition.

Dr. Ed Vargo, Endowed Chair in Urban and Structural Entomology at Texas A&M University, College Station, is among a team of scientists who recently published «Identification of a Queen and King Recognition Pheromone in the Subterranean Termite Reticulitermes,» in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/03/15/1721419115

To that end, the Bait Hive attracts the roving queen bee with a pheromone - laced beeswax inside, and once inside, the beekeeper turns the rotating front door — which has various - sized openings — so that the cut openings will allow bee drones inside, but not the queen, out.